I voted uctriton for post six, for the exact reason Jason would later use--because I found post six to be an attempt to manipulate the newbies to his side.
Thus, uctriton was the scummiest player to have posted, and most deserving of my vote.
Jason pointing out my point before I could make it, therefore, means that he's become my strongest townread.
However, I unvoted uctriton because uct is also a townread of mine, for the way he handled the debate. The Jason vs. uct debate feels like town vs. town, but what really sold uct as town is this:
Bringing attention to yourself accidentally is a bit of a scumtell, but bringing attention onto yourself as town can be aI don't mind being the topic of conversation Day 1.
brilliant
move; I know that in my arrogant youth, I did that sort of thing all the time--always as town, never as scum.This is something unique to me, but I used vote/unvote tags for uct, and only bold tags for Lucky. This is meant as a tipoff to the strength of my read. Uct was a serious scumread, but reversed to a serious townread, hence the vote/unvote tags. Lucky2u is a minor scumread, for post 7, where he ASKS,
I felt that as town, it's more likely to just do it than to ask for permission to do it. However, this is clearly not as strong as what my uct scumread had been, hence the mere vote.Should I random vote now?
The lack of explanation comes from two reasons. The first I was surprised to see Lucky2u nail, in that it's to gather reactions. (That insight is something I find slightly more likely to come from scum, so my vote will be staying.)
The second reason is that--as the IC--I want to encourage players to think for themselves as much as possible. As a newbie, there's a large temptation to just sheep the IC, with the thought, "oh, hey, that guy's clearly better than me", and/or "I think his logic is strong, so I'm going to follow it".
Don't get me wrong, occasionally sheeping someone is a good thing, especially if you're not confident in your own reads, but I don't want to encourage that behavior as your teacher. Instead, I want players to think for themselves. They can analyze things themselves and make guesses as to why I'm voting, which forces them to think for themselves.
Also, by not revealing my reasons, the discussion can shift in a direction which it otherwise would not have. Had I revealed my reasons, we'd have been focusing primarily on uctriton/Jason and Lucky2u still, whereas without the explanation, other players have also come under the spotlight.
